World Heritage: Archaeological Sites and Urban CentresFirst volume of three that Skira and UNESCO are launching to illustrate and describe world heritage places. This volume, devoted specifically to archaeological areas and urban centres, focuses on forty-six emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, distant in time and space, but presented together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection. With this instrument for learning and understanding, and through a particularly rich array of images, places of all sorts, distant in time and space, can be found together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection devoted to the complex paths of human history and culture: a true heritage of every nation and every individual. |
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... represented , others , of no lesser importance , are almost or entirely absent , as is shown by the extremely small number of sites related to prehistoric archaeology or sites dating from the nine- teenth and twentieth centuries . But ...
... represented , others , of no lesser importance , are almost or entirely absent , as is shown by the extremely small number of sites related to prehistoric archaeology or sites dating from the nine- teenth and twentieth centuries . But ...
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... represents in an ex- emplary manner that cultural stratigraphy that has made the city an elegant and refined equi- librium of architectural and natural charms , both historic and literary . It has a lively natural morphology , which ...
... represents in an ex- emplary manner that cultural stratigraphy that has made the city an elegant and refined equi- librium of architectural and natural charms , both historic and literary . It has a lively natural morphology , which ...
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... represented the sky ; the staircase is a serpent with its head facing downward that joins the upper and lower worlds ... represents heaven or the sky , and the lower level , the earth and the underworld . The plan of the ground level is ...
... represented the sky ; the staircase is a serpent with its head facing downward that joins the upper and lower worlds ... represents heaven or the sky , and the lower level , the earth and the underworld . The plan of the ground level is ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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adorned Aerial view ancient Angkor archaeological arches architect architecture artistic Baalbek Baroque basilica buildings built Bukhara Campo dei Miracoli capital carved cathedral century B.C. Church city's columns complex construction Convention Copán courtyard cultural and natural Cuzco date back decorated dedicated depicting developed dome dynasty Emperor Empire enclosure walls façade Fatimid fifteenth fortified Forum founded frescoes Galla Placidia Gothic Greek Heian period Historic Centre houses Imperial Forums important Inca interior Islamic kilometres King layout Leptis Magna masterpieces medieval metres monasteries monumental Mosque Museum Nabataean natural heritage Old City Omayyad outstanding paintings Palace Palazzo period plaza portico preserved protection Pyramid religious Renaissance River Roman Romanesque Rome ruins sacred Saint San'a sculpture Septimius Severus settlement side sixteenth century sixth century square statues stone structure style Suzdal Temple tenth century tion tombs towers town tradition Trajan tury twelfth century urban Vatican World Heritage World Heritage Site